Ethne Inguba

Family: Ulstermen · Role: Cuchulain's wife · First appears: The Sick-bed of Cuchulain · Part 1

Life events

• Cuchulain caught birds and distributed them among the women, leaving Ethne without a pair.(The Sick-bed of Cuchulain · Part 1 · 📍 Murthemne Plain)
  • With: Cuchulain Ethne Aitencaithrech Leborcham
  • “And they seized upon all the birds, and they gave them and distributed them among the women; nor was there any one of the women, except Ethne alone, who had not a pair of those birds.”
• Cuchulain promised Ethne the two most beautiful birds that came in the future.(The Sick-bed of Cuchulain · Part 1 · 📍 Murthemne Plain)
  • With: Cuchulain
  • “‘Be not angry,’ said Cuchulain, ‘if in the future any birds come to the Plain of Murthemne or to the Boyne, the two birds that are the most beautiful among those that come shall be thine.’”

The Sick-bed of Cuchulain · Part 1

• married with Cuchulain “and ‘If any should have this boon, I should be the first one to have it,’ said Ethne Inguba, the wife of Cuchulain.”

Also listed in Ulstermen — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Heroic Romances of Ireland. Made with Rho MD.